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FICTION: It's stated on the end credits.

posted 9 years ago by BulmaPunkRocker
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We all get confused with the publicity, saying "based on the true accounts".
Yes, this movie it's based on a book, but it clearly states the following, at the end of the credits:

"This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and locations portrayed and the names herein are fictitious, and any similarity to or identification with the location, name, character or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and unintentional."

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Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

[–] trikee1 9 years ago

You can base a movie on true and actual events but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a complete word for word copy. In this movie's case, they obviously took some true story situations, people involved, locations and altered it to make them thier own. In doing that they are bound by law to put a disclaimer in thier credits stating that it is fictitious unless concent is given by the people involved in the actual events.

[–] OccamsBarber 9 years ago

"Despite the claims made throughout the marketing and in the film itself, this is not based on "actual accounts". While there really is a Ralph Sarchie who really was an NYPD officer who claims to have encountered paranormal phenomena in his work and who co-wrote an allegedly non-fiction book that "Deliver Us from Evil" purports to adapt, the film does not actually adapt any of the cases found in said book and instead features a wholly original plot imagined by director Scott Derrickson and his co-writer Paul Harris Boardman."

If you take life too seriously it stops being funny.

[–] psycadelix 9 years ago

They always say "based on true accounts". It means they never are!. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, never happened. (Ed Gein was the "inspiration"). The Entity, again, nah. The Fourth Kind!!!, the list goes on!

[–] flavanoone 9 years ago

If you looking for real story just watch Exorcism of Emily Rose based on possesion of Anneliese Michel.

[–] william-i-allan 9 years ago

Even that movie is a fictional rebelling of the true story.
The book is much more terrifying.

[–] Ratchapakinai 9 years ago

Of course it's fiction. Only an idiot would believe this happened. Same goes with any exorcism story.